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looking for the best way to wire my electronics

I have a strat style cort guitar. It has a tone knob, volume knob, and a 5 way selector. I have an EMG 85 for the bridge pickup, a single coil for the middle pickup, and another single coil for the neck pickup.

How would I go about wiring the guitar for the least amount of noise, and the best quality. Does anyone know of a good place to buy electronic components for guitar? My buddy has a similar setup with an emg 85 and has alot less noise and interference than I do, I really want to clean up my guitars sound.

I have decent sheilding, but i'm getting the most noise from adjusting the tone and volume knobs. I am not really interested in the single coils too much, mainly just my emg 85. I am very confused when it comes to resistors, capacitors, and the knobs.

You can get the same value pots as what you have, or switch to a 1Meg (instead of 500k) one for the volume pot, that'll give you a little more top end. You'll also want a audio taper for the volume pot, doesn't matter as much for the tone one, but I prefer linear for the tone. Tone ones are generally 250K I think. If you have a digital multimeter you can measure the ones you have to be sure.

I'd leave the topology of the circuit alone (i.e. just pull off one wire at a time from the old pot and solder to the same pin on the new pot)